Hey Fabulous Lady! I hosted this live class on Feb. 8th on 3 Steps to Use Your Pain to Birth Your Dreams and Create Change and you can download the class for limited time only so I suggest you download now!
This is a special free class where you’re going to learn how to using your pain points (past disappointments, failures, delays, setbacks, hurts) as a catalyst to boost confidence in achieving health, spiritual, financial, personal growth, relationship and career goals.
It’s time to let go of the former things because God wants to do a new thing in your life! Will you join me? Download the class below! XOXO, Maria I. Melendez Founder & CEO Embrace Her Legacy
So the other day I met with one of my former students from my Embrace Her Legacy Academy and she told me something so motivating that I nearly started crying in the middle of the coffee shop. Yep, I’m a crier.
She recently traveled to her parent’s home country, Bangladesh, over the summer. I asked her how her trip went and she proceeds to say, “I kept thinking about you and all the principles that you taught me. I wish I could just clone you, have little you’s in my pocket and distribute you around the country because they need you and what you teach.”
Cue the tears in 3, 2, 1…
Why? Because at that moment I was reminded that achieving my destiny and courageously accomplishing my goals is not about me, it’s about the lives that I have been called to serve with my gifts, talents and abilities. In my most challenging times where I felt like walking away from it all, I always knew that there is a woman or a girl somewhere who is counting on me to get through this.
When she said this, she didn’t know the amount of encouragement and affirmation she was pouring out into my spirit.
So I’m telling you this –
Somebody, somewhere is waiting for you to do what God has called you to do.
Little did my former student know that the summer prior to me launching our Embrace Her Legacy Academy, I experienced a MAJOR fail when I tried to launch the program in Summer 2015 and had only 1 student apply.
Instead of me crying about it for days, I got back up on my feet and identified every resource I had access to in order to re-launch the program in Fall of 2015 – this time with students. I did just that and now the Embrace Her Legacy Academy is my most successful program to date. I work with hundreds of high schools in the New York City area who market the program amongst their students and send me the most qualified, success-oriented high school girls in the area to participate in the program.
Imagine if I would have quit after that first fail? I would have never met her nor been able to impact a country thousands of miles away!
Here’s the deal girlfriend – your life is as assignment and there is something that is unique to you, your skills, your abilities, your story and your gifts that is going to propel you into that assignment.
Fear loves to come in and steal the seed of your success before you even give it a try.
Why?
Because if I’m your enemy and I want to steal your destiny, then it’s much easier for me to steal your seed of success than your tree of success. Let’s say you were to plant an apple seed into the ground, then it’s going to take time, the right soil, the right amount of sunlight and water for that seed to grow into a beautiful apple tree. If I want to steal something from you, I’ll just steal the seed because it’s easier to take away that than to plow a big apple tree out of your backyard.
We’ve allowed fear, doubt, uncertainty, limited thinking, regret and every other things to steal the seed of our dreams. It’s time to take your seed back and live within your assignment!
As you know, I’m committed to seeing you achieve your goals. But more than achieve your goals, I want you to fulfill the assignment that you have on your life because someone, somewhere is waiting on you to do so.
Your grandchildren being successful engineers may be a direct result of your choice to go back to school for engineering. A woman’s life being saved from human trafficking may be a direct result of you starting that organization that fights the trafficking of woman and girls. You can change the course of an entire generation!
There is a bride who is waiting to feel like the most beautiful woman in the world on her wedding day because you did her bridal make-up.
I know that discovering your assignment or pursuing your purpose can feel overwhelming because you may not know where to start. Or you feel like you start and you allow procrastination or the frustration of delay, failure or lack of support to stop you.
I’ve dealt with it all and I’m going to teach you exactly how to navigate through the confusion, fear, procrastination and frustration to achieve your life’s assignment AND I’m going to show you how to become disciplined enough to do it.
That’s why I’m here girl! On Saturday, I’m going to be sharing with you something new and special that I’ve been working on to help you understand and navigate through that assignment. Those dreams, those desires are not a coincidence. They were given to you for a reason..to birth them.
You were not created to just pay bills and die. Yes, you can build a life that allows you to order what you want at any restaurant instead of going for the cheapest thing because you can’t afford what you really want. Yes, you can kick that smoking habit to the curb and be in your best, physical shape. Yes, you can have time to spend with your children and husband while you build a 6-figure business. Yes, you can pay off those student loans and not have to dodge anymore phone calls.
When you come to the end of your life, what do you want to be proud of? Do you want to have allowed fear to stop you from living out your dreams? Will you be another person who got on the hamster wheel of life (moving fast but going nowhere), but never got off?
I want you to think about where you want to go, not where you been. Think about where you want to be in five years – not where you’ll settle for.
XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy
embraceherlegacy.com
We’re coming off an event filled weekend. We have a new president, the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons are going to the Superbowl and millions of women marched advocating for the advancement of women and girls all over the world.
My social media feed was anything but boring.
As I perused through hundreds of photos from the Women’s March, I was filled with excitement to see women standing as a united front. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help but to think, “Will this excitement and empowerment trickle into our offices, schools, break rooms and relationships come Monday morning?”
I’ve personally experienced cattiness, competition and outright disrespect from women in the workplace – which was the seed that was used to inspire the birth of Embrace Her Legacy.
Before change or healing can begin, we as women, have to learn to acknowledge the parts of us that are wounded, hurt or frustrated. Those feelings of abandonment, rejection, betrayal or bitterness are valid but can be deceitfully masked with accomplishments, healthy bank accounts, education, corner offices, booming businesses, impressive social media influence and powerful relationships. Not only that but those feelings can cause us to feel like other women are competition, or an enemy – when in actuality there is room for all of us to win.
Coming from experience, there is no job, no amount of followers, no amount of money, no plastic surgery, no man, no amount of success that can replace what only God can do to heal you on the inside.
Bold statement isn’t it?
Well, I’m talking to you from experience. I struggled with low self-worth for years because I didn’t have a good opinion of myself so my validation came from the approval of others as well as the accomplishments I had. I believed that if I accomplished more then I would feel better about myself and my life would have meaning – not recognizing that I was already validated because God had already approved me. I didn’t need to do anything but I needed to focus on who I was becoming instead.
It wasn’t until I lost everything that I found meaning in, where God showed me that I was dope with or without the “things” or the “success” because He was enough. The toughest but most valuable lesson that I’ve learned in my life.
I was so focused on doing what I had been called to do instead of focusing on becoming the woman I had been called to be. Jim Rohn has a life-changing quote, “You attract success by the person you become.” So many of us want to look good on the outside but are crumbling on the inside. Some of us are still broken, little girls dressed in 20, 30 or 40 year old bodies.
How can we expect to prosper when we’re still riddled with fear, bitterness, anger or insecurity? This is why I’m adamant about focusing on prospering your soul first and then allowing everything else to prosper.
What’s your soul? It’s your mind, will and emotions. Your will is the ability to make your own decisions and is the most powerful component of your soul. Your emotions are the “lowest most unreasonable part of the soul but it exerts the greatest power in swaying your will.” Your mind will reason and rationalize in support of the emotion.
So I want you to be honest with yourself, are you pursuing your dreams because you want to use that success to cover up a wound? Who are you becoming on your journey? What’s the true motivation behind you achieving your goals?
If you focus on becoming a woman that people want to follow, then you’ll attract all sorts of good success in your life. There are successes that I’m experiencing now that I’ve been praying for for years to happen but if I would have received it back then, I would have sabotaged it because I had not become the woman I needed to be to maintain or manage the success.
Don’t underestimate the journey that you’re on because it’s molding you into the woman you need to be first, so then you can do what you were created to do. Focus on becoming and the success will come.
I want to help you with both. Not only am I here to motivate you to achieve your goals but I’m here to help you learn how to prosper your soul and become the woman you were created to be too. I want you to learn from all that I’ve experienced in the last few years where I lost money, relationships, comfort and too much more to even list. I’m not in the business of just helping your cross some tasks off your list.
Nope. I’m going to help you prosper your soul and I’m going to use that as the foundation to show you how to prosper in every other area in your life.
Welcome to Goals School – your personal, girlfriend’s guide to help you fabulously crush your goals and prosper your soul by using faith principles to help you overcome fear, failures, procrastination, and a defeated mindset. You’re about to develop a winning step-by-step action to plan to build your queendom and grow in confidence and faith to birth your dreams!
I’m founder and CEO of Embrace Her Legacy which is the #1 personal development, faith building and dream birthing school for fabulous and faith-filled millennial women! Yes, that means you 🙂
Goals School is going to teach you how to discover your life’s assignment and achieve your purpose-driven, personal, career, health and finance goals over the next 5-weeks! Consider me as your personal “goals girlfriend” for the next few weeks!
What Makes This Course So Special?
This isn’t just another “goals” course. I’m not in the business of just helping your cross some tasks off your list.
Nope. I’m going to help you prosper your soul and I’m going to use that as the foundation to show you how to prosper in every other area in your life. As your “goals girlfriend”, I’m going to keep it real and raw when it comes to helping you grow and achieve your goals. I’m a believer so I’m going to be using Biblical and ancient principles to help you first focus on your character, heal your wounded soul and then we’ll get to work on your goals.
Every week during our private, Facebook live chats (which will serve as your opportunity to ask me anything), we are going to discuss and learn the importance of character development and focus our topics to inspire your personal growth as a woman. Our course lectures will include everything from defeating fear to gaining clarity of success to prayers that work to strategies to help you achieve your goals to developing a winning mindset to making your vision board work for you.
This course is going to help you build your character, grow in your faith and birth your dreams. I am going to show you to apply what you’ve learned to realize your divine destiny. Too many of us want to focus on getting but I’ll show you how to focus on who you are becoming.
There is no amount of success, money, followers, relationships or accomplishments that can leave you permanently secure – only God can do that. So we’ll be focusing on pursuing a healed soul, forgetting former pain and using that as the foundation to achieve your goals.
This course focuses on self-improvement, personal development, faith building and achieving your goals in order to realize a purpose-driven legacy.
This is not another, boring personal development class either. I’m a fabulous and faith-filled, millennial women with tons of personality so I know your struggles girl! I teach from experience and have almost 10 years of business and personal development experience under my belt, I want you to learn from my pain so I will share stories of my journey with you too to inspire and motivate you. Trust me when I say I know the amount of tenacity, perseverance and faith it takes to do what God has called you to do.
I’ll be showing how to embrace discipline and how to make better decisions by aligning your decisions with your core-values.
I’m taking you on a journey. Every week, you’ll receive the module which will include lectures, worksheets, motivational videos, challenges, invitations to my coaching office hours and live (private) Facebook discussions, and a private Facebook community with other women who are taking the course. You’ll have lifetime access to this course so you can complete it at your own time and leisure.
Not only that but we’re going to go allllll the way in goal-setting. No more excuses! I’ve created the answer to help you accomplish your personal and professional goals and now it’s up to you to decide to go hard or go home.
I’m sure that you want success but I also know that many of you may need some motivation, clarity and guidance to help you identify and achieve your dream and purpose. Or perhaps you’ve allowed fear (which loves to come disguised as being practical) to stop your from taking a chance on your dreams. Or maybe you’ve been in such a rut of routine and unfulfilled life that you don’t know how to dream anymore so you’ve decided to settle.
You were not created to just pay bills and die! I’m going to show you how to use your pain as the catalyst to birth change.
It’s time to stop surviving, accepting mediocrity. It’s time to not only dream but it’s time to create your plan to hit your mark. Maybe you want to get out debt, start a business or become an author or world-renowned speaker. Maybe you want to start an organization that fights the human trafficking of girls in India or you want to save $10,000 or you want to buy your dream home. Whatever the dream is, I want you to know that it’s possible and you can do it, yes you can.
You were created for a purpose and your life is an assignment. This is a chance for you achieve your goals, discover the mistakes that may stop you and strengthen your faith muscles.
I’ve accomplished my goals like quitting my day job to start my business, publishing my first book, creating and launching personal development and education programs, and speaking around the country by using these principles but along the way I had to endure a wilderness of delays, hurts, challenges and failures to build my character in order to get here. I’m going to spill everything I’ve learned with you.
What Will You Learn?
I will teach you how to deal with unexpected delay, failures, setbacks, and challenges when it comes to achieving your goals.
You’ll learn how to overcome negative emotions like fear, doubt, resentment and unforgiveness. I’m going to teach you how these negative emotions can hold you back
How to let God heal wounds in your soul and become a whole, confident, faith-filled woman
Learn how to overcome procrastination and how to practice being disciplined to accomplish your goals.
Learn decision-making skills
How to use your God-given authority to command your blessings
I will help you understand your life’s assignment and divine purpose
I will teach you a step-by-step with a detailed, framework and action plan to help you achieve your top goals for next 12-18 months.
I know you may feel like everyone else is winning in their lives, businesses or careers. Their social media followings are progressing and you’re not, but that’s a total lie so I’m also going to teach you how to kill the “comparison devil” thats stealing your joy and how to embrace the power in your individual story.
You’ll learn how to achieve those big, scary goals that you believe are “impossible” or “too hard”
Learn how to discover what success really means to you. I’m going to help you figure out what you really want, I’ll motivate you to go after it
I will add value and insight with goal-setting strategies for whether you’re a beginner and have no clue how to make your goals a reality or if you have some experience and you want to step up your game and kill your 2017 goals
Learn strategies to help you understand your life’s assignment so you can clarity and insight instead of the same, old personal development practices
Get excited to learn how to stay motivated, deal with disappointment, deal with lack of support from loved ones, create a supportive tribe, implement strategies to help you remain disciplined and overcome fear or self-limiting beliefs to help you kill your 2017 goals and beyond
Not enough for you? Well, it doesn’t stop there! I will also show you:
I will show you how to deal with delay in achieving your goals and how to remain motivated when you feel like nothing is happening.
I’m going to teach you how to actually make your vision board work this time
I’m going to show you how to set and write out your goals the right way. Yes, there is a wrong way.
I will show you how to find time to work on your goals daily
How to deal with fear of failure, disappointment, obstacles, setbacks, and challenges.
I will teach you to recognize and eliminate distractions – including relationships, places and things that are assets vs. liabilities to help you achieve your goals.
I will teach you how to remain focused and encouraged when unforeseen challenges present themselves while trying to achieve your goals.
I will teach you how to hold yourself accountable for your goals
You’ll get to join our Facebook group and weekly, live coaching sessions to ensure accountability. I will be holding you accountable for your progress and goals throughout the class duration. Consider me your personal “goals coach” for the next 5-weeks
You’ll gain the opportunity to build accountability partners with other members in our Facebook community
How Will This Benefit Me?
Create a step-by-step action plan showing you how to accomplish your 2017 goals and beyond.
I will use examples of how I used these very strategies for personal and professional achievements like writing and getting my first book traditionally published.
You’ll learn how to become the woman you have been called to be so you can honor what you have been called to be
You’re going to learn how to get out of your feelings to walk by faith
You will develop a positive, winning mindset
You’re going to learn how to identify resources, strategies and skills needed to help you accomplish each goal
I will show you how to create a personal development routine
If you’re a beginner, and have no clue where to start in order to achieve or your goals or you really not too sure on what you want, then no worries – I’ll show you exactly how to discover what success means to you and how to make it happen.
If you know what you want, then I will show you how to build off the goals you already have to create a solid strategy that will help you kill your 2017 goals.
You’re also going to get to join my personal Facebook group for tons of support, accountability and we’ll have weekly challenges and shoutouts giving you a chance to track your growth and share and promote your accomplishments.
To make things even sweeter for you, you’ll get to join me on a weekly live coaching session and motivation session so that I can keep you motivated, help you overcome procrastination and kick fears of failures to the curb.
You can submit your worksheets and I will review them for you with my comments
If you have any questions, you can address them directly to me on the weekly call or in our Facebook community.
Access to my live group coaching and “office hours” every week throughout the duration of the course
Work Review of your submitted worksheets
Downloadable Handouts/Worksheets
Lectures & Videos
Community: Access to a the private Goals School Tribe Facebook group (lifetime access) featuring:
Challenges
Accountability
Share and promote accomplishments, businesses, promotions, social media accounts
Motivational Discussions
Please note that enrollment closes Mon. Feb 6th and the course begins on Mon. Feb 13th. There are limited number of spaces available and we will close enrollment early if we reach out max number of students.
Watch This Video to Learn More About Me and Goals School!
If there is any word that we should both be getting out of our vocabulary, it’s that word “impossible.”
When something is “impossible” in your mind, then the battle is already lost. You may have dreams, desires or goals living inside of your heart that you believe are “impossible.”
And I totally get it.
If you’re knee deep in debt, getting out of debt may appear to be impossible. If you’re currently making a salary of $30,000 a year then growing that salary to 6-figures is just too far out of your reach. If you’re overwhelmed with work, school or taking care of your home then finding time to really build that dream business is not realistic right now, so it’s best to just hold off for now.
I actually have a goal coaching client who dealt with this same frustration. We sat together for hours working on a strategic goal coaching session where we forecasted her 5-year vision and worked backwards to make those desires that she thought were impossible to a possible plan of making it happen. (Soon, I’m going to be teaching you how to do the same.)
She’s a custom fashion designer, fashion consultant and make-up artist with a desire to make a monthly income of $5,000. Now to her this was impossible. She was dealing with self-limiting beliefs telling her that she’s not worth it and how she priced her services expressed her beliefs. In her mind, she believed that she would have to sew dozens of dresses a month or book dozens of clients for her make-up services. Working harder and not smarter.
Until I proposed this idea.
I told her that her 5-year vision of making $5,000 a month was actually far more possible than she thought. I told her that if she wanted to make an income of $5,000 per month then that was only (5) $1,000 dresses for the month or (10) $500 dresses for the month. It’s easier to meet an income goal if you would raise your prices because you don’t have to worry about “catching a million fishes, you just have to create the right bait to catch the right fish.”
It’s much easier to get 5 clients than 10, and it’s easier to gain 10 clients than 50.
Her face lit up but then those self-limiting beliefs came up again and she still wasn’t convinced that she was worth charging $1,000 or $500 per custom design dress. Please note that I know this woman personally and her talent is definitely worth it but it’s ultimately up to her to believe it.
So I asked her what would make her feel worthy of increasing her rates. Essentially I asked, what do you need to do in order to be able to start charging that much? She immediately replied, “Going to the Fashion Institute of Technology so I can increase my knowledge and skill.”
Well you already know what we did after that. We mapped out her 1-year plan in order to meet the requirements, apply and get into FIT while also partaking in action steps to increase her skill in make-up artistry and increase her brand visibility online to make sure that she is prepared for the opportunities that she desires.
Now she is well on her way to not only meeting her income and business goals, but she has a clear step-by-step action plan to make it real.
I want to ask you, what desires or dreams do you have in your heart that you believe are impossible?
Instead of focusing on how impossible it is, I want you to think of what you need to do in order to make it possible. What skills, talent or education do you need? What support do you need? What can you do differently from any other time you tried?
Let’s say that you believe it’s “impossible” to find time to write your book. What if you spent 20 minutes a day writing before you went to sleep. Do you know that by the end of week that means you spent 2 hours and 20 minutes writing your new book! At the end of the month, it will be a little over 9 hours of writing!
You may think it’s impossible to make that 6-figure income from your business sales. Well what if you decided to become an expert in your field by spending 1 hour a day studying and researching so you can raise your coaching rates from $50 per hour to $150 per hour and your speaking rates from a $500 honorarium to a $2,500 honorarium?
What resources do you have access to make your impossible dreams possible? You may simply have to get uncomfortable for a season but that’s exactly what it is, a season. You want to save $5,000 this year, then break that goal down to what you need to save per month and per week and create an action plan.
I’m a firm believer that nothing is impossible with God. God is looking for your faith in Him to do what you can’t. You might not be able to save an additional $500 a month but God may have a new job just around the bend where you’ll be able to save an additional $1,000 per month!
Where is your faith? You are not in this alone because all things are possible if you would just believe. Faith without works is dead so use your faith to encourage a plan to achieve your goals.
Faith + Works (Your Plan) = All things being possible! Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
I want you to join me this Monday, January 23rd at 8pm ET for a live, office hours where I’m going to be teaching and sharing more about using your faith to make your impossible goals possible, feel free to ask me anything to help you too! Consider it like a free coaching session. Plus, I’m going to be making a SPECIAL announcement and give away. Make sure you’ve liked our Facebook page to watch and join!
XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy
embraceherlegacy.com
